208 LXXV. RUBIACEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Galium. 



14. G-. spurium, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 608; scaberulous, leaves subses- 

 sile 4-6 in a whorl elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse or acute penninerved, 

 cymes slender elongate terminal and axillary, fruit glabrous smooth. Boiss. FL 

 Orient, iii. 69. 



KASHMIR, Falconer, Thomson. 



Annual, glabrous; stems 2-3 ft., flaccid, rambling. Leaves 1-1 in., usually ob- 

 tuse, rather thin, midrib not strong beneath, and margins minutely scabrid. Cymes 

 much longer than the leaves, with slender distant divaricate branches. Corolla minute, 

 white ; segments ovate, obtuse. Fruit ^ 6 in. diam., black. 



16. Cr. verum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 603: erect, smooth, stem pubescent 

 upwards, leaves sessile 8-10 in a whorl linear cuspidate glabrous margins revo- 

 lute, nerves obscure, cymes numerous short many-flowered, fruit glabrous 

 granular. Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 1187; Boiss. FL Orient, iii. 62. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 5-10,000 ft., Falconer, &c. ; Lahul, Hay, 

 Jaeschke. PISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia. 



Perennial ; stems erect or rambling, 1-3 ft., terete. Leaves usually deflexed, very 

 narrow, -1 by -^^ in., rigid. Cymes very numerous, pedicels short, straight in fruit. 

 Corolla bright yellow; segments ovate, acute. Fruit ^ in., often pubescent in 

 Europe. 



16. Cr. acutum, Edgew.in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 61; smooth, glabrous, 

 stems interlaced, leaves sessile 6 in a whorl very small elliptic-lanceolate aristate 

 margins recurved, nerves obsolete, peduncles axillary short 1-flowered, fruit 

 irlabrous granulate. G. floribundum, Jacq. Journ. G. himalayense, Klotzsch in 

 7V. Wold. Reise Sot. 88, t. 73. 



TEMPERATR HIMALAYA; Kunawur, alt. 5000 ft., Edgeworth; Garwhal, alt. 10,000 

 ft., Falconer, &c. ; Sikkim, alt. 9-13,000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



Perennial, black when dry ; suberect and stiff, or flaccid and decumbent ; stems 

 6-12 in., very leafy. Leaves close-set, often recurved, - in., midrib strong beneath. 

 Peduncle very stout when flowering, much shorter than the leaves, elongate and 

 straight in fruit. Corolla very minute; segments lanceolate. acuminate. Fruit ~ in. 

 diam, I have noted the flowers as purplish in some Sikkim specimens, yellowish- 

 white in others. 



17. Cr. tenuissimum, Bieb. FL Taur. Cauc. i. 104; erect, scabrid, 

 glabrous, excessively slender, widely divaricately branched, leaves 6 in a whorl 

 narrowly linear scabrid aristate, nerves obsolete, cymes very large lax very slen- 

 der few-flowered, fruit minute smooth glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 607 ; oiss. 

 FL Orient, iii. 73. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kashmir, alt. 5000-6.500 ft., Clarke. PUNJAB p- at Eawul 

 Pindee, Aitchison. DISTRIB. W. Asia, from Syria and the Caucasus to Greece. 



Annual. Stem 6-12 in., usually retrorsely scabrid, subterete, di-tri-chotomously 

 divided from the base, so that the whole plant forms a triangle with the apex at the 

 root, leafy at the forks only. Leaves ^-f by in., rather broader beyond the middle, 

 ciliate with rigid hairs, margins revolute. Cymes many times longer than the leaves, 

 and very long pedicels capillary. Corolla minute, white or yellowish ; segments cus- 

 pidate. Fruit T *2 in. diam., mericarps often free. Too closely allied to G. divaricatum, 

 Lam., which extends from Europe to Syria. 



18. Cr. setaceum, Lanik. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 609 ; erect, short, minutely 

 scabrid or glabrous, branches filiform erect or divaricate, leaves 4-8 in a whorl 

 filiform acute margins recurved lower short elongate-spathulate not aristate 

 upper setaceous, cymes terminal and lateral capillary few-flowered, fruit moe*t 

 minute glabrous or with a few hooked hairs. JSoiss. FL Orient, iii. 77. G. 

 capillare, Cav. 2c. t. 191, f. 1. 



